What is the role of the technology in cybercrime. If that role is substantial, shouldn't we consider it in our models of criminal activity? Dr Wystke Van der Wagen help us better understand Actor Network Theory and its application to the study of cybercrime.
About the guest:
https://www.eur.nl/people/wytske-van-der-wagen
Papers mentioned in this episode:
Wytske van der Wagen, The Significance of ‘Things’ in Cybercrime: How to Apply Actor-network Theory in (Cyber)criminological Research and Why it Matters, Journal of Extreme Anthropology, Volume 3 Number 1, 2019
Assistant Professor at Erasmus University, Department of Criminology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.6895
Wytske van der Wagen, Wolter Pieters, From Cybercrime to Cyborg Crime: Botnets as Hybrid Criminal Actor-Networks, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 55, Issue 3, May 2015, Pages 578–595,
https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv009
van der Wagen, W., & Pieters, W. (2018). The hybrid victim: Re-conceptualizing high-tech cyber victimization through actor-network theory. European Journal of Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370818812016
Wytske van der Wagen, From cybercrime to cyborg crime
Authors Manuscript version:
https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/61493330/Chapter_1.pdf
Extract from:
van der Wagen, W. (2018). From cybercrime to cyborg crime: An exploration of high-tech cybercrime,
offenders and victims through the lens of Actor-Network Theory. [Groningen]: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/en/publications/from-cybercrime-to-cyborg-crime(f3a5c5e0-ff0f-4dad-ac6c-2bc91d96a1b4).html
Other:
The Samy Kamkar MySpace Worm
Greatest Moments in Hacking History: Samy Kamkar Takes Down Myspace
5 minute Video from MotherBoard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtnuaHl378M
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That EternalBlue thing that became crimeware
The Leaked NSA Spy Tool That Hacked the World by Lily Hay Newman on Wired.com (03/07/2018)
https://www.wired.com/story/eternalblue-leaked-nsa-spy-tool-hacked-world/
WannaCry – Important lessons from the first NSA-powered ransomware cyberattack
By Pierluigi Paganini, May 16, 2017
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The BredoLab Botnet
Bredolab: Jail for man who masterminded botnet of 30 million computers
by Graham Cluley, 23 MAY 2012
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/05/23/bredolab-jail-botnet/
Wikipedia on the BedoLab botnet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bredolab_botnet
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Sorry for the Pronunciation of Kubernētēs, I tried, but I am not sure than I managed more than a "foreign word" accent.
If all you have is a hammer, all you see is nails, but every tool's a hammer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43319933-every-tool-s-a-hammer